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“We pray for our nation and all the inhabitants therein, that they will know peace, genuine peace based on justice and righteousness.”
President Rodrigo Duterte’s admission that extrajudicial killings is his “only sin” has “legal and moral implications.”
Three mothers of victims of Duterte's drug war narrate how they have risen up from grief and despair to finding hope in the struggle for justice.
Within months of his coming to power in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte’s profanities, tirades, threats, outrageous remarks about women, human rights, heads of foreign states, and what he was actually doing, had called the attention of international media — in...
“Just days after his speech against the church, another killing was committed; the serious and alarming statements from the president against church people are very disturbing. It is in effect, license to those who committed these murders.”
“The culture of impunity in this country does not exempt Church people and those who are genuinely serving the poor, the oppressed, the marginalized, and the rejected."
“We came here for a very urgent reason, we came here to verify mounting reports of rights abuse against peasant and Lumad communities perpetrated allegedly by military elements. No wonder the military people do not want us here.”
Military presence in Eastern Visayas is likened to the prevalence of pests in the area -- a burden and a pretext to greater destruction of farmers’ crops and even their lives. Following the arrival of the military in each village is always a long list of rights violations and the continued culture of impunity.
“The relaunch of the police and Duterte administration’s Oplan Tokhang, after being suspended twice in 2017, is a tacit admission that there is something fundamentally wrong with these policies.”
Karapatan has criticized Duterte's counterinsurgency program "Oplan Kapayapaan" as no different from the past administrations' policies, targeting civilians and activists and peasant and indigenous peoples' communities.
Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay revealed the rising statistics and intensifying attacks on people’s civil and political rights under President Duterte’s administration.
The UP Third World Studies Center organized a research workshop on 'Violence, Human Rights and Democracy in the Philippines.' I submitted a short essay in response to the workshop question: "Based on your knowledge of and experience in your locality, do you think...
Despite heavy snow, Filipinos in the Netherlands held a symbolic protest at the Philippine Embassy in The Hague on Dec. 11 to denounce “state-sponsored” killings under the Duterte administration.
The Communist Party of the Philippines-Central Luzon said the Philippine Army is the only one with the motive to kill Catholic priest Marcelito "Tito" Paez.
“This is by far the worst attack against the indigenous peoples.”
Catholic priest Marcelito “Tito” Paez, 72, a true servant of God and the people, died in a gun attack on Dec. 4.
MANILA -- Kin of victims of extrajudicial killings -- both political and drug war-related -- gathered at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani on Dec. 1 to protest what they called President Duterte's tyranny. As the International Human Rights Day draws nearer, progressives...
Human rights defenders are understandably disappointed with the Nov. 13-14 31st ASEAN Summit. Not only were human rights the least of the concerns of the leaders of the member-countries of the Association, it also seemed as if they had come to the Philippines with...
Law practitioners will come together for a two-day summit as they call to uphold the rule of law and aid victims of President Duterte’s War on Drugs.
Even if he’s serious about it, President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer for the Philippines to host a high-level meeting, or summit, on human rights is unlikely to materialize. The leaders of those countries accused of human rights violations would hardly welcome an...
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